At the beginning of the 2018 ordinary session on Monday 22 January, Italian Socialist Michele Nicoletti, the only candidate for the post of President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), was automatically elected.
Nicoletti takes over from Stella Kyriakidès of Cyprus, who was elected last October as interim President following the resignation of Spain’s Pedro Agramunt, marking the end of a long crisis sparked by the latter’s meeting with Syrian President Bashar...